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Abimelech therefore gave this warning to all his men:
"Anyone who molests this man or his wife shall forthwith be
put to death." [GEN 26:11]

Jacob had hoodwinked Laban the Aramean by not telling him of
his intended flight. Thus he made his escape with all that he had.
Once he was across the Euphrates, he headed for the highlands of
Gilead. On the third day, word came to Laban that Jacob had fled.
Taking his kinsmen with him, he pursued him for seven days until
he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead. But that
night God appeared to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him,
"Take care not to threaten Jacob with any harm!" [GEN
31:20-24]

Now the famine in the land grew more severe. So when they had
used up all the rations they had brought from Egypt, their father
said to them, "Go back and procure us a little more
food." But Judah replied: "The man strictly warned us,
'You shall not appear in my presence unless your brother is with
you.' If you are willing to let our brother go with us, we will go
down to procure food for you. But if you are not willing, we will
not go down, because the man told us, 'You shall not appear in my
presence unless your brother is with you.'" [GEN 43:1-5]

The LORD said to him, "On your return to Egypt, see that
you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put in your
power. I will make him obstinate, however, so that he will not let
the people go. So you shall say to Pharaoh: Thus says the LORD:
Israel is my son, my first-born. Hence I tell you: Let my son go,
that he may serve me. If you refuse to let him go, I warn you, I
will kill your son, your first-born." [EX 4:21-23]

Seven days passed after the LORD had struck the river. Then the
LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him: Thus says
the LORD: Let my people go to worship me. If you refuse to let
them go, I warn you, I will send a plague of frogs over all your
territory. The river will teem with frogs. They will come up into
your palace and into your bedroom and onto your bed, into the
houses of your servants, too, and your subjects, even into your
ovens and your kneading bowls. The frogs will swarm all over you
and your subjects and your servants." [EX 7:25-29]

Again the LORD told Moses, "Early tomorrow morning present
yourself to Pharaoh when he goes forth to the water, and say to
him: Thus says the LORD: Let my people go to worship me. If you
will not let my people go, I warn you, I will loose swarms of
flies upon you and your servants and your subjects and your
houses. The houses of the Egyptians and the very ground on which
they stand shall be filled with swarms of flies. But on that day I
will make an exception of the land of Goshen: there shall be no
flies where my people dwell, that you may know that I am the LORD
in the midst of the earth. I will make this distinction between my
people and your people. This sign shall take place tomorrow."
[EX 8:16-19]

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him:
Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to
worship me. If you refuse to let them go and persist in holding
them, I warn you, the LORD will afflict all your livestock in the
field - your horses, asses, camels, herds and flocks - with a very
severe pestilence. But the LORD will distinguish between the
livestock of Israel and that of Egypt, so that none belonging to
the Israelites will die." [EX 9:1-4]

Then the LORD told Moses, "Early tomorrow morning present
yourself to Pharaoh and say to him: Thus says the LORD, the God of
the Hebrews: Let my people go to worship me, or this time I will
hurl all my blows upon you and your servants and your subjects,
that you may know that there is none like me anywhere on earth.
For by now I would have stretched out my hand and struck you and
your subjects with such pestilence as would wipe you from the
earth. But this is why I have spared you: to show you my power and
to make my name resound throughout the earth! Will you still block
the way for my people by refusing to let them go? I warn you,
then, tomorrow at this hour I will rain down such fierce hail as
there has never been in Egypt from the day the nation was founded
up to the present. Therefore, order all your livestock and
whatever else you have in the open fields to be brought to a place
of safety. Whatever man or beast remains in the fields and is not
brought to shelter shall die when the hail comes upon them."
Some of Pharaoh's servants feared the warning of the LORD and
hurried their servants and livestock off to shelter. Others,
however, did not take the warning of the LORD to heart and left
their servants and livestock in the fields. The LORD then said to
Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that hail may
fall upon the entire land of Egypt, on man and beast and every
growing thing in the land of Egypt." When Moses stretched out
his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent forth hail and peals of
thunder. Lightning flashed toward the earth, and the LORD rained
down hail upon the land of Egypt; and lightning constantly flashed
through the hail, such fierce hail as had never been seen in the
land since Egypt became a nation. It struck down every man and
beast that was in the open throughout the land of Egypt; it beat
down every growing thing and splintered every tree in the fields.
Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites dwelt, was there
no hail. [EX 9:13-26]

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, "Thus
says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to
submit to me? Let my people go to worship me. If you refuse to let
my people go, I warn you, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your
country. They shall cover the ground, so that the ground itself
will not be visible. They shall eat up the remnant you saved
unhurt from the hail, as well as all the foliage that has since
sprouted in your fields. They shall fill your houses and the
houses of your servants and of all the Egyptians; such a sight
your fathers or grandfathers have not seen from the day they first
settled on this soil up to the present day." With that he
turned and left Pharaoh. [EX 10:3-6]

The LORD also told him, "I am coming to you in a dense
cloud, so that when the people hear me speaking with you, they may
always have faith in you also." When Moses, then, had
reported to the LORD the response of the people, the LORD added,
"Go to the people and have them sanctify themselves today and
tomorrow. Make them wash their garments and be ready for the third
day; for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai
before the eyes of all the people. Set limits for the people all
around the mountain, and tell them: Take care not to go up the
mountain, or even to touch its base. If anyone touches the
mountain, he must be put to death." Then Moses came down from
the mountain to the people and had them sanctify themselves and
wash their garments. He warned them, "Be ready for the third
day. Have no intercourse with any woman." [EX 19:9-12,14-15]

On the morning of the third day there were peals of thunder and
lightning, and a heavy cloud over the mountain, and a very loud
trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled. But
Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God, and they
stationed themselves at the foot of the mountain. Mount Sinai was
all wrapped in smoke, for the LORD came down upon it in fire. The
smoke rose from it as though from a furnace, and the whole
mountain trembled violently. The trumpet blast grew louder and
louder, while Moses was speaking and God answering him with
thunder. When the LORD came down to the top of Mount Sinai, he
summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up to
him. Then the LORD told Moses, "Go down and warn the people
not to break through toward the LORD in order to see him;
otherwise many of them will be struck down. The priests, too, who
approach the LORD must sanctify themselves; else he will vent his
anger upon them." Moses said to the LORD, "The people
cannot go up to Mount Sinai, for you yourself warned us to set
limits around the mountain to make it sacred." The LORD
repeated, "Go down now! Then come up again along with Aaron.
But the priests and the people must not break through to come up
to the LORD; else he will vent his anger upon them." So Moses
went down to the people and told them this. [EX 19:16-25]

"You shall warn the Israelites of their uncleanness, lest
by defiling my Dwelling, which is in their midst, their
uncleanness be the cause of their death." [LEV 15:31]

Moses, followed by the elders of Israel, arose and went to
Dathan and Abiram. Then he warned the community, "Keep away
from the tents of these wicked men and do not touch anything that
is theirs: otherwise you too will be swept away because of all
their sins." [NUM 16:25-26]

Then Moses laid the staffs down before the LORD in the tent of
the commandments. The next day, when Moses entered the tent,
Aaron's staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted and
put forth not only shoots, but blossoms as well, and even bore
ripe almonds! Moses thereupon brought out all the staffs from the
LORD'S presence to the Israelites. After each prince identified
his own staff and took it, the LORD said to Moses, "Put back
Aaron's staff in front of the commandments, to be kept there as a
warning to the rebellious, so that their grumbling may cease
before me; if it does not, they will die." And Moses did as
the LORD had commanded him. [NUM 17:22-26]

But Balaam answered Balak, "Did I not warn you that I must
do all that the LORD tells me?" [NUM 23:26]

Balaam replied to Balak, "Did I not warn the very
messengers whom you sent to me, 'Even if Balak gave me his house
full of silver and gold, I could not of my own accord to anything,
good or evil, contrary to the command of the LORD'? Whatever the
LORD says I must repeat. But now that I am about to go to my own
people, let me first warn you what this people will do to your
people in the days to come." Then Balaam gave voice to his
oracle: The utterance of Balaam, son of Beor, the utterance of the
man whose eye is true, The utterance of one who hears what God
says, and knows what the Most High knows, Of one who sees what the
Almighty sees, enraptured and with eyes unveiled. [NUM 24:12-16]

These were the clans of the Reubenites, of whom forty-three
thousand seven hundred and thirty men were registered. From Pallu
descended Eliab, and the descendants of Eliab were Dathan and
Abiram-the same Dathan and Abiram, councilors of the community,
who revolted against Moses and Aaron (like Korah's band when it
rebelled against the LORD). The earth opened its mouth and
swallowed them as a warning [Taken from NUM 26:7-10]

"In reply you said to me, 'We have sinned against the
LORD. We will go up ourselves and fight, just as the LORD, our
God, commanded us.' And each of you girded on his weapons, making
light of going up into the hill country. But the LORD said to me,
'Warn them: Do not go up and fight, lest you be beaten down before
your enemies, for I will not be in your midst.' I gave you this
warning but you would not listen. In defiance of the LORD'S
command you arrogantly marched off into the hill country. Then the
Amorites living there came out against you and, like bees, chased
you, cutting you down in Seir as far as Hormah. On your return you
wept before the LORD, but he did not listen to your cry or give
ear to you. That is why you had to stay as long as you did at
Kadesh." [DEUT 1:41-46]

But if you forget the LORD, your God, and follow other gods,
serving and worshiping them, I forewarn you this day that you will
perish utterly. [DEUT 8:19]

"When you have come into the land which the LORD, your
God, is giving you, and have occupied it and settled in it, should
you then decide to have a king over you like all the surrounding
nations, you shall set that man over you as your king whom the
LORD, your God, chooses. He whom you set over you as king must be
your kinsman; a foreigner, who is no kin of yours, you may not set
over you. But he shall not have a great number of horses; nor
shall he make his people go back again to Egypt to acquire them,
against the LORD'S warning that you must never go back that way
again." [DEUT 17:14-16]

When Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,
he said, "Take to heart all the warning which I have now
given you and which you must impress on your children, that you
may carry out carefully every word of this law. For this is no
trivial matter for you; rather, it means your very life, since it
is by this means that you are to enjoy a long life on the land
which you will cross the Jordan to occupy." [DEUT 32:45-47]

Because they had thus abandoned him and served Baal and the
Ashtaroth, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel, and he
delivered them over to plunderers who despoiled them. He allowed
them to fall into the power of their enemies round about whom they
were no longer able to withstand. Whatever they undertook, the
LORD turned into disaster for them, as in his warning he had sworn
he would do, till they were in great distress. [JUDG 2:13-15]

"If a man sins against another man, one can intercede for him
with the LORD; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can
intercede for him?" But they disregarded their father's
warning, since the LORD had decided on their death. [1SAM 2:25]

Samuel was displeased when they asked for a king to judge them.
He prayed to the LORD, however, who said in answer: "Grant
the people's every request. It is not you they reject, they are
rejecting me as their king. As they have treated me constantly
from the day I brought them up from Egypt to this day, deserting
me and worshiping strange gods, so do they treat you too. Now
grant their request; but at the same time, warn them solemnly and
inform them of the rights of the king who will rule them." [1SAM
8:6-9]

The people, however, refused to listen to Samuel's warning and
said, "Not so! There must be a king over us. We too must be
like other nations, with a king to rule us and to lead us in
warfare and fight our battles." When Samuel had listened to
all the people had to say, he repeated it to the LORD, who then
said to him, "Grant their request and appoint a king to rule
them." Samuel thereupon said to the men of Israel, "Each
of you go to his own city." [1SAM 8:19-22]

Then Hushai said to the priests Zadok and Abiathar: "This
is the counsel Ahithophel gave Absalom and the elders of Israel,
and this is what I counseled. So send a warning to David
immediately, not to spend the night at the fords near the desert,
but to cross over without fail. Otherwise the king and all the
people with him will be destroyed." [2SAM 17:15-16]

When Solomon was informed that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem
to Gath, and had returned, the king summoned Shimei and said to
him: "Did I not have you swear by the LORD to your clear
understanding of my warning that, if you left and went anywhere
else, you should die without fail? And you answered, 'I accept and
obey.' Why, then, have you not kept the oath of the LORD and the
command that I gave you?" And the king said to Shimei:
"You know in your heart the evil that you did to my father
David. Now the LORD requites you for your own wickedness. But King
Solomon shall be blessed, and David's throne shall endure before
the LORD forever." The king then gave the order to Benaiah,
son of Jehoiada, who struck him dead as he left. [1KGS 2:41-46]

Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa, king of Judah, and
reigned in his stead. Once he was king, he killed off the entire
house of Jeroboam, not leaving a single soul to Jeroboam but
destroying him utterly, according to the warning which the LORD
had pronounced through his servant, Ahijah the Shilonite, because
of the sins Jeroboam committed and caused Israel to commit, by
which he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger. [1KGS
15:28-30]

And though the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet
and seer, "Give up your evil ways and keep my commandments
and statutes, in accordance with the entire law which I enjoined
on your fathers and which I sent you by my servants the
prophets," they did not listen, but were as stiff-necked as
their fathers, who had not believed in the LORD, their God. They
rejected his statutes, the covenant which he had made with their
fathers, and the warnings which he had given them. The vanity they
pursued, they themselves became: they followed the surrounding
nations whom the LORD had commanded them not to imitate. They
disregarded all the commandments of the LORD, their God, and made
for themselves two molten calves; they also made a sacred pole and
worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. [2KGS 17:13-16]

In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year
of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of
Assyria, attacked Samaria, laid siege to it, and after three years
captured it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, the ninth year of
Hoshea, king of Israel, Samaria was taken. The king of Assyria
then deported the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah,
at the Habor, a river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
This came about because they had not heeded the warning of the
LORD, their God, but violated his covenant, not heeding and not
fulfilling the commandments of Moses, the servant of the LORD. [2KGS
18:9-12]

In Jerusalem also, Jehoshaphat appointed some Levites and
priests and some of the family heads of Israel to judge in the
name of the LORD and to settle quarrels among the inhabitants of
Jerusalem. He gave them this command: "You shall act
faithfully and wholeheartedly in the fear of the LORD. And in
every dispute that your brethren living in their cities bring to
you, whether it concerns bloodguilt or questions of law, command,
statutes, or judgments, warn them lest they become guilty before
the LORD and his wrath come upon you and your brethren. Do that
and you shall be guiltless." [2CHRON 19:8-10]

After the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and paid
homage to the king, and the king then listened to them. They
forsook the temple of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and
began to serve the sacred poles and the idols; and because of this
crime of theirs, wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem. Although
prophets were sent to them to convert them to the LORD, the people
would not listen to their warnings. [2CHRON 24:17-19]

Early and often did the LORD, the God of their fathers, send
his messengers to them, for he had compassion on his people and
his dwelling place. But they mocked the messengers of God,
despised his warnings, and scoffed at his prophets, until the
anger of the LORD against his people was so inflamed that there
was no remedy. [2CHRON 36:15-16]

When our enemies became aware that we had been warned and that
God had upset their plan, we all went back, each to his own task
at the wall. From that time on, however, only half my able men
took a hand in the work, while the other half, armed with spears,
bucklers, bows, and breastplates, stood guard behind the whole
house of Judah as they rebuilt the wall. The load carriers, too,
were armed; each did his work with one hand and held a weapon with
the other. [NEH 4:9-11]

In those days I perceived that men in Judah were treading the
winepresses on the sabbath; that they were bringing in sheaves of
grain, loading them on their asses, together with wine, grapes,
figs, and every other kind of burden, and bringing them to
Jerusalem on the sabbath day. I warned them to sell none of these
victuals. [NEH 13:15]

The merchants and sellers of various kinds of merchandise spent
the night once or twice outside Jerusalem, but then I warned them,
saying to them: "Why do you spend the night alongside the
wall? If you keep this up, I will lay hands on you!" From
that time on, they did not return on the sabbath. [NEH 13:20-21]

Judas rallied his army and went to the city of Adullam. As the
week was ending, they purified themselves according to custom and
kept the sabbath there. On the following day, since the task had
now become urgent, Judas and his men went to gather up the bodies
of the slain and bury them with their kinsmen in their ancestral
tombs. But under the tunic of each of the dead they found amulets
sacred to the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to
wear. So it was clear to all that this was why these men had been
slain. They all therefore praised the ways of the Lord, the just
judge who brings to light the things that are hidden. Turning to
supplication, they prayed that the sinful deed might be fully
blotted out. The noble Judas warned the soldiers to keep
themselves free from sin, for they had seen with their own eyes
what had happened because of the sin of those who had fallen. He
then took up a collection among all his soldiers, amounting to two
thousand silver drachmas, which he sent to Jerusalem to provide
for an expiatory sacrifice. In doing this he acted in a very
excellent and noble way, inasmuch as he had the resurrection of
the dead in view; for if he were not expecting the fallen to rise
again, it would have been useless and foolish to pray for them in
death. But if he did this with a view to the splendid reward that
awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness, it was a holy and
pious thought. Thus he made atonement for the dead that they might
be freed from this sin. [2MACC 12:38-46]

For God does speak, perhaps once, or even twice, though one
perceive it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, (when deep
sleep falls upon men) as they slumber in their beds, It is then he
opens the ears of men and as a warning to them, terrifies them; By
turning man from evil and keeping pride away from him, He
withholds his soul from the pit and his life from passing to the
grave. [JOB 33:14-18]

For he forewarns no man of his time to come before God in
judgment. [JOB 34:23]

And now, kings, give heed; take warning, rulers on earth. Serve
the LORD with fear; with trembling bow down in homage, Lest God be
angry and you perish from the way in a sudden blaze of anger.
Happy are all who take refuge in God! [PS 2:10-11]

'Listen, my people, I give you warning! If only you will obey
me, Israel! There must be no foreign god among you; you must not
worship an alien god. I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you up
from the land of Egypt. Open wide your mouth that I may fill it.'
But my people did not listen to my words; Israel did not obey me.
So I gave them over to hardness of heart; they followed their own
designs. But even now if my people would listen, if Israel would
walk in my paths, In a moment I would subdue their foes, against
their enemies unleash my hand. [PS 81:9-15]

Therefore you rebuke offenders little by little, warn them, and
remind them of the sins they are committing, that they may abandon
their wickedness and believe in you, O LORD! [WISDOM 12:2]

For when the dire venom of beasts came upon them and they were
dying from the bite of crooked serpents, your anger endured not to
the end. But as a warning, for a short time they were terrorized,
though they had a sign of salvation, to remind them of the precept
of your law. For he who turned toward it was saved, not by what he
saw, but by you, the savior of all. And by this also you convinced
our foes that you are he who delivers from all evil. [WISDOM 16:5-8]

And the punishments came upon the sinners only after
forewarnings from the violence of the thunderbolts. For they
justly suffered for their own misdeeds, since indeed they treated
their guests with the more grievous hatred. [WISDOM 19:13]

Never trust your enemy, for his wickedness is like corrosion in
bronze. Even though he acts humbly and peaceably toward you, take
care to be on your guard against him. Rub him as one polishes a
brazen mirror, and you will find that there is still corrosion.
Let him not stand near you, lest he oust you and take your place.
Let him not sit at your right hand, lest he then demand your seat,
And in the end you appreciate my advice, when you groan with
regret, as I warned you. [SIRACH 12:10-12]

For thus said the LORD to me, taking hold of me and warning me
not to walk in the way of this people: Call not alliance what this
people calls alliance, and fear not, nor stand in awe of what they
fear. But with the LORD of hosts make your alliance - for him be
your fear and your awe. Yet he shall be a snare, an obstacle and a
stumbling stone to both the houses of Israel, A trap and a snare
to those who dwell in Jerusalem; And many among them shall stumble
and fall, broken, snared, and captured. [ISA 8:11-15]

In the year the general sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, fought
against Ashdod and captured it, the LORD gave a warning through
Isaiah, the son of Amoz: Go and take off the sackcloth from your
waist, and remove the sandals from your feet. This he did, walking
naked and barefoot. Then the LORD said: Just as my servant Isaiah
has gone naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and portent
against Egypt and Ethiopia, so shall the king of Assyria lead away
captives from Egypt, and exiles from Ethiopia, young and old,
naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered (the shame of Egypt).
They shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Ethiopia, their
hope, and because of Egypt, their boast. The inhabitants of this
coastland shall say on that day, "Look at our hope! We have
fled here for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria; where
can we flee now?" [ISA 20:1-6]

Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I be estranged from you; Lest I
turn you into a desert, a land where no man dwells. Thus says the
LORD of hosts: Glean, glean like a vine the remnant of Israel;
Pass your hand, like a vintager, repeatedly over the tendrils. To
whom shall I speak? whom shall I warn, and be heard? See! their
ears are uncircumcised, they cannot give heed; See, the word of
the LORD has become for them an object of scorn, which they will
not have. Therefore my wrath brims up within me, I am weary of
holding it in; I will pour it out upon the child in the street,
upon the young men gathered together. Yes, all will be taken,
husband and wife, graybeard with ancient. [JER 6:8-11]

Then the LORD said to me: Proclaim all these words in the
cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: Hear the words of
this covenant and obey them. Urgently and constantly I warned your
fathers to obey my voice, from the day I brought them up out of
the land of Egypt even to this day. But they did not listen or
give ear. Each one followed the hardness of his evil heart, till I
brought upon them all the threats of this covenant which they had
failed to observe as I commanded them. [JER 11:6-8]

For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Just as my
furious anger was poured out upon the citizens of Jerusalem, so
shall my anger be poured out on you when you reach Egypt. You
shall become an example of malediction and horror, a curse and a
reproach, and you shall never see this place again. It is the LORD
who has spoken to you, remnant of Judah; do not go to Egypt! You
can never say that I did not warn you this day. [JER 42:18-19]

Though I kept sending to you all my servants the prophets, with
the plea not to commit this horrible deed which I hate, they would
not listen or accept the warning to turn away from the evil of
sacrificing to strange gods. Therefore the fury of my anger poured
forth in flame over the cities of Judah and the streets of
Jerusalem, so that they became the ruinous waste they are today.
[JER 44:4-6]

"And the LORD fulfilled the warning he had uttered against
us: against our judges, who governed Israel, against our kings and
princes, and against the men of Israel and Judah. He brought down
upon us evils so great that there has not been done anywhere under
heaven what has been done in Jerusalem, as was written in the law
of Moses" [Taken from BARUCH 2:1-2]

All the evils of which the LORD had warned us have come upon
us: and we did not plead before the LORD, or turn, each from the
figments of his evil heart. And the LORD kept watch over the
evils, and brought them home to us; for the LORD is just in all
the works he commanded us to do, but we did not heed his voice, or
follow the precepts of the LORD which he set before us. [BARUCH
2:7-10]

Thus the word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, I have
appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel. When you hear a
word from my mouth, you shall warn them for me. If I say to the
wicked man, You shall surely die; and you do not warn him or speak
out to dissuade him from his wicked conduct so that he may live:
that wicked man shall die for his sin, but I will hold you
responsible for his death. If, on the other hand, you have warned
the wicked man, yet he has not turned away from his evil nor from
his wicked conduct, then he shall die for his sin, but you shall
save your life. If a virtuous man turns away from virtue and does
wrong when I place a stumbling block before him, he shall die. He
shall die for his sin, and his virtuous deeds shall not be
remembered; but I will hold you responsible for his death if you
did not warn him. When, on the other hand, you have warned a
virtuous man not to sin, and he has in fact not sinned, he shall
surely live because of the warning, and you shall save your own
life. [EZEK 3:17-21]

When I execute judgment upon you in anger and fury and with
furious chastisements, you shall be a reproach and an object of
scorn, a terrible warning to the nations that surround you. I, the
LORD, have spoken! [EZEK 5:15]

Thus I will put an end to lewdness in the land, and all the
women will be warned not to imitate your lewdness. [EZEK 23:48]

Thus the word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, speak thus to
your countrymen: When I bring the sword against a country, and the
people of this country select one of their number to be their
watchman, and the watchman, seeing the sword coming against the
country, blows the trumpet to warn the people, anyone hearing but
not heeding the warning of the trumpet and therefore slain by the
sword that comes against him, shall be responsible for his own
death. He heard the trumpet blast yet refused to take warning; he
is responsible for his own death, for had he taken warning he
would have escaped with his life. But if the watchman sees the
sword coming and fails to blow the warning trumpet, so that the
sword comes and takes anyone, I will hold the watchman responsible
for that person's death, even though that person is taken because
of his own sin. You, son of man, I have appointed watchman for the
house of Israel; when you hear me say anything, you shall warn
them for me. If I tell the wicked man that he shall surely die,
and you do not speak out to dissuade the wicked man from his way,
he (the wicked man) shall die for his guilt, but I will hold you
responsible for his death. But if you warn the wicked man, trying
to turn him from his way, and he refuses to turn from his way, he
shall die for his guilt, but you shall save yourself. [EZEK 33:1-9]

Be not like your fathers whom the former prophets warned: Thus
says the LORD of hosts: Turn from your evil ways and from your
wicked deeds. But they would not listen or pay attention to me,
says the LORD. [ZECH 1:4]

After their audience with the king they set out. And behold,
the star that they had seen at its rising preceded them, until it
came and stopped over the place where the child was. They were
overjoyed at seeing the star, and on entering the house they saw
the child with Mary his mother. They prostrated themselves and did
him homage. Then they opened their treasures and offered him gifts
of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And having been warned in a
dream not to return to Herod, they departed for their country by
another way. [MT 2:9-12]

When Herod had died, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared in
a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, "Rise, take the child
and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought
the child's life are dead." He rose, took the child and his
mother, and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that
Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod, he
was afraid to go back there. And because he had been warned in a
dream, he departed for the region of Galilee. He went and dwelt in
a town called Nazareth, so that what had been spoken through the
prophets might be fulfilled, "He shall be called a
Nazorean." [MT 2:19-23]

John wore clothing made of camel's hair and had a leather belt
around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. At that
time Jerusalem, all Judea, and the whole region around the Jordan
were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the Jordan
River as they acknowledged their sins. When he saw many of the
Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,
"You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming
wrath? Produce good fruit as evidence of your repentance. And do
not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.'
For I tell you, God can raise up children to Abraham from these
stones. Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore
every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and
thrown into the fire. I am baptizing you with water, for
repentance, but the one who is coming after me is mightier than I.
I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the
Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in his hand. He will
clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into his barn, but
the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire." [MT 3:4-12]

And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed
(him), crying out, "Son of David, have pity on us!" When
he entered the house, the blind men approached him and Jesus said
to them, "Do you believe that I can do this?" "Yes,
Lord," they said to him. Then he touched their eyes and said,
"Let it be done for you according to your faith." And
their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, "See that
no one knows about this." But they went out and spread word
of him through all that land. [MT 9:27-31]

But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against him to put
him to death. When Jesus realized this, he withdrew from that
place. Many (people) followed him, and he cured them all, but he
warned them not to make him known. [MT 12:14-16]

As they left Jericho, a great crowd followed him. Two blind men
were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was
passing by, they cried out, "(Lord,) Son of David, have pity
on us!" The crowd warned them to be silent, but they called
out all the more, "Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!"
Jesus stopped and called them and said, "What do you want me
to do for you?" They answered him, "Lord, let our eyes
be opened." Moved with pity, Jesus touched their eyes.
Immediately they received their sight, and followed him. [MT 20:29-34]

A leper came to him (and kneeling down) begged him and said,
"If you wish, you can make me clean." Moved with pity,
he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, "I
do will it. Be made clean." The leprosy left him immediately,
and he was made clean. Then, warning him sternly, he dismissed him
at once. Then he said to him, "See that you tell no one
anything, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your
cleansing what Moses prescribed; that will be proof for
them." The man went away and began to publicize the whole
matter. He spread the report abroad so that it was impossible for
Jesus to enter a town openly. He remained outside in deserted
places, and people kept coming to him from everywhere. [MK 1:40-45]

[Jesus] had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases
were pressing upon him to touch him. And whenever unclean spirits
saw him they would fall down before him and shout, "You are
the Son of God." He warned them sternly not to make him
known. [Taken from MK 3:10-12]

Now Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of
Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, "Who
do people say that I am?" They said in reply, "John the
Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets."
And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter
said to him in reply, "You are the Messiah." Then he
warned them not to tell anyone about him. [MK 8:27-30]

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when
Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of
Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea
and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, during the
high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to
John the son of Zechariah in the desert. He went throughout (the)
whole region of the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance
for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the
words of the prophet Isaiah: "A voice of one crying out in
the desert: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.
Every valley shall be filled and every mountain and hill shall be
made low. The winding roads shall be made straight, and the rough
ways made smooth, and all flesh shall see the salvation of
God.'" He said to the crowds who came out to be baptized by
him, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the
coming wrath? Produce good fruits as evidence of your repentance;
and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our
father,' for I tell you, God can raise up children to Abraham from
these stones." [LK 3:1-8]

"There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and
fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door
was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly
have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man's
table. Dogs even used to come and lick his sores. When the poor
man died, he was carried away by angels to the bosom of Abraham.
The rich man also died and was buried, and from the netherworld,
where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far
off and Lazarus at his side. And he cried out, 'Father Abraham,
have pity on me. Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in
water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering torment in these
flames.' Abraham replied, 'My child, remember that you received
what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received
what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are
tormented. Moreover, between us and you a great chasm is
established to prevent anyone from crossing who might wish to go
from our side to yours or from your side to ours.' He said, 'Then
I beg you, father, send him to my father's house, for I have five
brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they too come to this
place of torment.' But Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the
prophets. Let them listen to them.' He said, 'Oh no, father
Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will
repent.' Then Abraham said, 'If they will not listen to Moses and
the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone should
rise from the dead.'" [LK 16:19-31]

Observing the boldness of Peter and John and perceiving them to
be uneducated, ordinary men, they were amazed, and they recognized
them as the companions of Jesus. Then when they saw the man who
had been cured standing there with them, they could say nothing in
reply. So they ordered them to leave the Sanhedrin, and conferred
with one another, saying, "What are we to do with these men?
Everyone living in Jerusalem knows that a remarkable sign was done
through them, and we cannot deny it. But so that it may not be
spread any further among the people, let us give them a stern
warning never again to speak to anyone in this name." So they
called them back and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in
the name of Jesus. Peter and John, however, said to them in reply,
"Whether it is right in the sight of God for us to obey you
rather than God, you be the judges. It is impossible for us not to
speak about what we have seen and heard." After threatening
them further, they released them, finding no way to punish them,
on account of the people who were all praising God for what had
happened. [ACTS 4:13-21]

I earnestly bore witness for both Jews and Greeks to repentance
before God and to faith in our Lord Jesus. But now, compelled by
the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem. What will happen to me there
I do not know, except that in one city after another the Holy Spirit
has been warning me that imprisonment and hardships await me. Yet
I consider life of no importance to me, if only I may finish my
course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to
bear witness to the gospel of God's grace. [ACTS 20:21-24]

Much time had now passed and sailing had become hazardous
because the time of the fast had already gone by, so Paul warned
them, "Men, I can see that this voyage will result in severe
damage and heavy loss not only to the cargo and the ship, but also
to our lives." [ACTS 27:9-10]

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our ancestors
were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, and all
of them were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. All
ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual
drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them,
and the rock was the Christ. Yet God was not pleased with most of
them, for they were struck down in the desert. These things
happened as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil
things, as they did. And do not become idolaters, as some of them
did, as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink,
and rose up to revel." Let us not indulge in immorality as
some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell within a single
day. Let us not test Christ as some of them did, and suffered
death by serpents. Do not grumble as some of them did, and
suffered death by the destroyer. These things happened to them as
an example, and they have been written down as a warning to us,
upon whom the end of the ages has come. Therefore, whoever thinks
he is standing secure should take care not to fall. No trial has
come to you but what is human. God is faithful and will not let
you be tried beyond your strength; but with the trial he will also
provide a way out, so that you may be able to bear it. [1COR 10:1-13]

I warned those who sinned earlier and all the others, and I
warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second
visit, that if I come again I will not be lenient, since you are
looking for proof of Christ speaking in me. He is not weak toward
you but powerful in you. For indeed he was crucified out of
weakness, but he lives by the power of God. So also we are weak in
him, but toward you we shall live with him by the power of God.
Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in faith. Test
yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? -
unless, of course, you fail the test. I hope you will discover
that we have not failed. [2COR 13:2-6]

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity,
licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy,
outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions, factions,
occasions of envy, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like. I warn
you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will
not inherit the kingdom of God. [GAL 5:19-21]

For even when we were among you, we used to warn you in advance
that we would undergo affliction, just as has happened, as you
know. [1THES 3:4]

After a first and second warning, break off contact with a
heretic, realizing that such a person is perverted and sinful and
stands self-condemned. [TI 3:10-11]

The main point of what has been said is this: we have such a
high priest, who has taken his seat at the right hand of the
throne of the Majesty in heaven, a minister of the sanctuary and
of the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up. Now every
high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus the
necessity for this one also to have something to offer. If then he
were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are those who
offer gifts according to the law. They worship in a copy and
shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, as Moses was warned when he was
about to erect the tabernacle. For he says, "See that you
make everything according to the pattern shown you on the
mountain." Now he has obtained so much more excellent a
ministry as he is mediator of a better covenant, enacted on better
promises. [HEB 8:1-6]

But without faith it is impossible to please him, for anyone
who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards
those who seek him. By faith Noah, warned about what was not yet
seen, with reverence built an ark for the salvation of his
household. Through this he condemned the world and inherited the
righteousness that comes through faith. [HEB 11:6-7]

See that you do not reject the one who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much more in our case if we turn away from the one who warns from heaven.
[HEB 12:25]

Since everything is to be dissolved in this way, what sort of
persons ought (you) to be, conducting yourselves in holiness and
devotion, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God,
because of which the heavens will be dissolved in flames and the
elements melted by fire. But according to his promise we await new
heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Therefore,
beloved, since you await these things, be eager to be found
without spot or blemish before him, at peace. And consider the
patience of our Lord as salvation, as our beloved brother Paul,
according to the wisdom given to him, also wrote to you, speaking
of these things as he does in all his letters. In them there are
some things hard to understand that the ignorant and unstable
distort to their own destruction, just as they do the other
scriptures. Therefore, beloved, since you are forewarned, be on
your guard not to be led into the error of the unprincipled and to
fall from your own stability. But grow in grace and in the
knowledge of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory now
and to the day of eternity. (Amen.) [2PT 3:11-18]

I warn everyone who hears the prophetic words in this book: if
anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in
this book, and if anyone takes away from the words in this
prophetic book, God will take away his share in the tree of life
and in the holy city described in this book. [RV 22:18-19]

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